An iPhone app that passes App Store review and feels native

A native iOS app is written in Swift against Apple's own frameworks. It gets new iOS features on day one, handles animation and camera work well, and feels like it belongs on the phone. The cost is that Android is a second build. If most of your users are on iPhone, as is common for premium retail, healthcare and corporate staff apps in Riyadh and Al Khobar, native iOS first is a sound choice.

If you need both platforms at the same price point, a shared codebase in Flutter or React Native can cover iOS and Android together. We explain the trade honestly in the scoping week: what you gain in cost and speed, and what you give up in platform polish. For apps that lean on Bluetooth, background location, widgets or heavy camera use, we usually recommend native.

Either way, you own the source code and the Apple Developer account listing. We never publish under our own account unless you ask us to.

Every build goes through App Review against Apple's published guidelines. The common failures are predictable: a login wall with no way to delete the account, missing privacy disclosures, digital goods sold outside Apple's in-app purchase rules, and placeholder content. We keep a checklist against those rules and run it before each submission.

For Saudi apps there are local points on top. If you collect personal data, your privacy policy and consent screens should follow the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) as issued by SDAIA, including how users access or delete their data. Payments that touch cards should go through a gateway that supports mada, and any financial feature should be reviewed against the requirements of the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) before launch, not after.

Review usually takes a day or two, but we plan a buffer of one week in the schedule for a possible resubmission.

Arabic support is more than flipping the layout. Navigation direction, swipe gestures, text truncation, number formats, and mixed Arabic and English strings such as order numbers all need a decision. We set these once in a design system and test every screen in both languages on physical devices, including smaller older iPhones.

For hosting, we can place the backend in-Kingdom on a Saudi cloud region where your sector or your customers expect it, in line with the cloud rules of the Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST) and the cybersecurity controls of the National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA ECC) where they apply to you.

As a guide, a focused app with login, a catalogue or booking flow, payments and push notifications takes 8 to 14 weeks from signed scope to App Store submission. A larger app with offline sync, several user roles or complex integrations runs 14 to 24 weeks. We give you a fixed range after the scoping stage, not before.